Definitions for Hoover
ˈhu vərhoover

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Hoover, William Hoover, William Henry Hoovernoun

   United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

2. Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoovernoun

   United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)

3. Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, President Hoovernoun

   31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)

4. Hooververb

   a kind of vacuum cleaner

5. vacuum, vacuum-clean, hooververb

   clean with a vacuum cleaner

   "vacuum the carpets"

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1. Hoovernoun

   A brand of vacuum cleaner.

2. Hoovernoun

   (shared by several famous people including J Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover).

3. hoovernoun

   A generic term for a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

4. hooververb

   To clean (a room, etc) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

   I need to hoover this room.

5. hooververb

   To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

   My husband is upstairs, hoovering.

6. hooververb

   To suck in or inhale, as if by a vacuum cleaner.

7. Etymology: The surname is an anglicization of and Huber. The common noun and verb are taken from the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners.

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1. Hoover

   Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA and is also included in the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL CSA. Hoover’s neighborhoods and planned communities are located along the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Hoover is home to the Riverchase Galleria, one of the largest shopping centers in the Southeast and one of the largest mixed-use centers in the U.S. with 2.4 million square feet of total retail floor area. The Riverchase Galleria complex includes shopping, hotel, and office space. The shopping complex major anchor stores are JCPenney, Belk, Macy's, and Sears. The Birmingham Barons minor league baseball team, which traces its history to 1885, played its home games at the 10,800 seat Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. Michael Jordan's brief professional baseball career was with the Barons in 1994.

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1. hoover

   A type of device, appliance and product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, elements, shapes, sizes,styles and systems.

   There are a wide variety of hoovers you can purchase all created and designed in a similar and different way.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on November 21, 2015  

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   hoover

   To use a hoover.

   They did hoover the house once a week and then mopped all the floors.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 21, 2020  

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1. hoover

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1. • President Of The United States
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How to pronounce Hoover?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hoover in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hoover in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Hoover in a Sentence

1. Paul Begala:

   If the Republicans want to claim they're new, they're going to need some new ideas, privatizing Social Security is not a new idea. Voucherizing Medicare is not a new idea. Cutting taxes for the rich is not a new idea. Discriminating against our LGBT sisters and brothers is not a new idea. In fact, I can't think of a single economic idea from the Republicans that Herbert Hoover wasn't in favor of in 1932.

2. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   About Edgar J Hoover "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in"

3. Wednesday Clark:

   The opportunity is there if we want it, if I was to put the (Airbus super-jumbo) A380 through multiple points in Europe, we would clean out the business like a Dyson hoover.

4. Princess Leia Lucas:

   My (Hebrew) name and history are As Real As The Royalty I Come From. I'm full of it, and a true Hamburger as well. My Mixed Mutt DNA includes the names: Stewart, Romanov, Grimaldi, Hassan, Kahn, Khan, Borjigin, Chakri, Nassau... and a few surprises, such as Lucas, Disney, Hyde, Hoover, Turner, Brennan, Colby, Hayden, Schlesinger, Gates, Helms,...Fisher, Ford... LOVE YOU GUYS! - From your very own: Princess, Countess...

5. Bryan Kroten:

   It's two and a half hours of pure experience from the time the helicopter lifts off to the time it returns, as you depart, you'll head towards Lake Las Vegas and Lake Mead. Then we do a giant 'S' turn over the Hoover Dam, so passengers on both sides of the helicopter have a perfect view.

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